Committee of Lebanese Detainees in Syria told the Central News Agency that the Syrian authorities handed over on Monday night the body of the Lebanese citizen Amer Safi after his death in a Syrian prison.As the reasons of death remained unknown, whether for natural causes or due to torture, some sources assumed that Safi may have died 15 days ago.
The funeral was held on Tuesday in Safi's village Kamid al-Lawz in Western Beqaa, knowing that Safi's father was informed of his son's death through the Internal Security Forces.
Reports said that Safi's parents visited him several times in his Syrian prison.
Safi was arrested for a political charge since around a year and half while he was attending university in Syria. He was asked to renounce his political affiliation in return to his release but he refused.
Ex-Minister Abdul Raheem Murad had previously demanded that Safi be released prior to June 7 parliamentary elections.
The committee's president Ali Abu Dehn wondered "if Syrian authorities hand over Lebanese detainees only as corpses".
Abu Dehn also called on the Syrian authorities to release the Lebanese detainees jailed in Syria between the years 1980-2000 and to inform their parents of their whereabouts.
"If they were still alive, let their parents visit them, but if they were deceased, let their bodies be handed over to attain burial in a decent way," concluded Abu Dehn.
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